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I have an obsession with knowing the answers to things. When I don't know what happened, it just bothers me, gets under my skin, and I need to write about it.
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When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.
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My imagination is a twisted place.
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A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.
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When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening.
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My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I'm concerned, love is absolutely everything.
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It's human nature to not say everything that's on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We're afraid of being embarrassed.
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I always have to be writing.
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My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.
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I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.
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I go to Wal-Mart all the time. The one in my hometown of Hendersonville, Tenn., is open 24 hours, so I go there a lot to buy DVDs and stuff like that.
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I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.
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Just because you make a good plan, doesn't mean that's what's gonna happen.
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I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.
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When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.
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The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.
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Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it's a green light.
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I have so many playlists full of Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, Chris Brown.
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My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.
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I created my MySpace page in eighth grade, because that's how all my friends talked to each other, so I made one, too. Then, all of a sudden, my friends started putting my songs on their profiles, and then their relatives, their friends in different states did.
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I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
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I don't live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.